The Master, guarding Tang San, was the first to notice his disciple awakening. He quickly roused Oscar, who was dozing off, saying, "Oscar, quick, give Xiao San a sausage!"
Having witnessed the Martial Soul Fusion skill of Tang San and Tang Sui, Oscar, too excited to cultivate, had fallen asleep in a cross-legged position during the latter half of the night. Awakened by the Master, he blinked in confusion for a second before quickly chanting the food spirit incantation and handing a large sausage to the Master.
After consuming it, Tang San slowly recovered. Xiao Wu thoughtfully took a water flask from her soul tool and gave it to Tang San. Tang San smiled at Xiao Wu, nodded, pulled out the wooden stopper, and chugged.
Half a flask of water later, Oscar's Super Recovery Great Sausage began to take effect, and Tang San finally felt alive again.
"Where's Sui Sui?" His first thought upon recovering was to look around. Seeing Tang Sui slowly opening her blue eyes and gazing at him from under the tree, his tensed heart finally relaxed.
"Brother, I'm fine," Tang Sui said reassuringly.
Tang San let out a breath and met the excited gazes of his companions.
"Xiao San, tell us quickly what happened at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well yesterday! How did you and Sui Sui suddenly unleash a Martial Soul Fusion skill!" Ma Hongjun excitedly rubbed his hands, his face full of anticipation, just like the others.
Tang San and Tang Sui exchanged a glance across the distance. The latter blinked at him, and Tang San understood. He began to explain selectively, "When I was absorbing the soul ring of the Cave Earth Spider, I was subjected to the soul shock produced by the death of a powerful spirit beast, just as Xiao Wu had said."
At this point, Tang San felt a bit embarrassed to face Xiao Wu's gaze, and said with shame, "I didn't expect the residual soul of the Cave Earth Spider to be so strong, that even my Purple Demon Eye, which had advanced to the Mustard Seed realm, couldn't suppress it. It was a stalemate in my spiritual space. At the critical moment... perhaps because Sui Sui and I are connected by blood, she sensed my danger and appeared in my soul space."
"I told you you shouldn't absorb a ten-thousand-year soul ring!" Xiao Wu couldn't help but punch Tang San's shoulder.
Tang San smiled reassuringly at Xiao Wu, "But I don't regret it. Because the gains from this adventure far outweighed the dangers. The biggest surprise among them was what you all should have seen before... Sui Sui's and my Martial Soul Fusion skill. That was one of the biggest gains."
"It truly is a Martial Soul Fusion skill," Flander sighed.
Dai Mubai then asked him, "You said it was one of them, so what else?"
"And the fourth soul skill and its accompanying status effect," Tang San didn't know what to call the status obtained after being corrupted. The Master, understanding, chimed in,
"You're referring to 'Corruption,' aren't you?"
"So it's 'Corruption'..." Tang San was slightly taken aback, then relieved, and looked at Tang Sui, "In the 'Corrupted' state, all my attributes and spirit power increased by 1.5 times. Not only that, after being corrupted, I found that I could resonate with... Sui Sui's other black martial soul form. And then you saw what happened."
"Speaking of which, your martial soul fusion form is humanoid and looks like a clone. Although it maintains independent entities, it is essentially one. I imagine a Martial Soul Fusion skill in this state would be no weaker than Zhu Qing and Mubai's Nether White Tiger," the Master mused.
In front of Tang Sui, a panel only she could see appeared. She tapped on the line of additional soul skill, saying, "My brother's and my Martial Soul Fusion skill makes us appear as one entity, yet different individuals. Spirit power is amplified by 150%, attack power increases with the mask, and speed and spirit power are doubled."
As soon as she said this, Ning Rongrong and the others stared in astonishment.
"However, I can't stray too far from my brother, but I can freely infiltrate shadows, a bit like a backer."
"Besides that, there's shared vision, double perspectives. And if my brother's consciousness falls comatose or suffers a mental shock, I can take the primary position and control my brother's body to attack together. Conversely, my brother can freely manipulate my mask martial soul to attack enemies, and I won't be hit by my brother's attacks, similar to the effect of my third soul skill."
As soon as she finished speaking, Flander and Zhao Wuji, who had suffered beatings before, got goosebumps all over.
Tang Sui, not noticing their slightly changed expressions, continued, "What you saw earlier was my brother's consciousness having already fallen into a deep coma, yet I was still conscious. That's why I controlled my brother's body to appear, but didn't speak a single word to you."
Then... if Sui Sui lost control again, and in the state of Martial Soul Fusion, wouldn't they be... brother and sister tag-teaming them?
Thinking this, the two felt a headache coming on.
One Tang Sui was already enough to give them a headache. If these two little monsters united... good heavens, that would be a true mask of pain! Sudan Novel Network
"Hiss—! This is several times more powerful than the Nether White Tiger! You guys look like 1v1, but it's actually 2v1! That's cheating!" Ma Hongjun gasped.
"But there are also drawbacks to this Martial Soul Fusion skill. That is the immense consumption of both spirit power and spiritual power. Coupled with the fact that my spirit power is already lower than Sui Sui's, if not for the Martial Soul Fusion connecting Sui Sui's spirit power to mine and occasionally replenishing mine, I would have been completely drained," Tang San sighed. This Martial Soul Fusion skill, given their current situation, could only be used as a last resort.
"So, what is the name of your and Sui Sui's Martial Soul Fusion skill, Xiao San?" Dai Mubai was curious about this.
Soul skill names were self-created. Except for food-type and support-type soul masters who automatically manifested specific incantations and soul skill names when activating their skills, others chose their own.
Tang San and Tang Sui's gazes met in mid-air again, and the next moment, the siblings said in unison with tacit understanding—
"Tai Xu."
Like Tai Chi, yin and yang born together, interdependent.
Full of illusion, yet entirely real.
Truth and falsehood, illusion and reality, difficult to distinguish black and white, this is Tai Xu.
This was the unchangeable name infused into their chaotic consciousness after they unleashed their Martial Soul Fusion skill!
—Author's Note—
[Slams desk frantically] No one can sleep after watching the Winter Night Farce! Mo Li immediately sprang out of bed! I'll update two chapters today first. My mind is full of the Fatui, I can't even get through the outline. I'll go watch the video again!
I'll make up for it with four chapters tomorrow~